Jumat, 22 Februari 2008

Multilingual User Interface (MUI) enables the user interface language of the operating system to be changed to a supported language, according to user preferences. MUI technology supports multilingual application development and Win32 resource creation for any number of user interface languages which use a unique resource configuration mechanism. The MUI documentation includes the following sections:

Multilingual User Interface (MUI) is a technology for providing localized user interface to international users. MUI deals with user interface resource management in the Windows operating system. It promotes dynamic user interface resource handling to support new capabilities, such as multiple-language user interface and language-neutral base system.

As part of software internationalization technology, MUI supports and simplifies software localization, which is the customization of software to defined locales and languages. A comprehensive discussion of internationalization and localization can be found at Microsoft's Global Development and Computing Portal . This site provides extensive documentation about designing, building, and deploying globalized applications, including the characteristics of different human languages that can affect software design.

MUI allows large corporations and OEMs to roll out, support, and maintain the same worldwide image with a single installation. Other benefits of MUI are that users of different languages can share the same workstation, and roaming users can move their localized user interface from one workstation to another. For instance, one user might choose to see system menus, dialog boxes, and other text in Japanese, while another user logging onto the same operating system might prefer to see the corresponding text in Danish.